[Koha-devel] biblio deletion

[paul POULAIN]

Hi all,

I'm working on biblio deletion in Koha.
There are some very annoying bugs in deletion in 1.2.x code, that I want 
to clean.
The deleted biblio is copied into a "deletedbiblio" table, for historic 
purposes. Note that there is no way to transfer the biblio back to 
"active DB". And it's a little buggy : the biblio can be deleted without 
the biblioitems :-\ (see delbiblio.pl & sub delbiblio in C4/Biblio.pm). 
and you can delete a biblioitem with items attached (deletebiblioitems.pl)

I propose the following feature :
* a confirmation is needed before any deletion.
* delete can be done on biblio or items. If done on biblio, biblioitem 
and items are deleted too.
* deleted biblios are no more stored in deletedbiblio tables : because 
there is no MARC deletedbiblio, no way to restore a biblio, I think it's 
a feature we could introduce in a future version of Koha.
* deletion require a "superlibrarian" flag, to avoid any librarian 
deleting biblios.

Any opinion/suggestions ?

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Paul POULAIN
Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres
responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)